2015: ‘Jonathan‘ll lose Anambra State if…’

ONITSHA  — Indications emerged, yesterday, that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may again lose Anambra State in the 2015 general elections should its national leadership fail to quickly resolve the long drawn crisis in the state chapter of the party.

Addressing reporters in Awka, some stakeholders and members of Emma Nwaeze-led faction of the party, called on the national chairman, Alhaji Muazu, to urgently wade into the crisis and resolve the problem.

Spokesman for the group, Mr. Chukwudi Okasie, specifically appealed to the national leadership of the PDP to dissolve the present state executive on October 24 when its tenure would expire, threatening that they would go to court if a factional chairman, Chief Ken Emeakayi, continued to parade himself as state chairman after that date.

“The PDP is in confusion because we have two factions and based on this in the 2015 general elections, the PDP has less than 50 per cent chances of winning the state.
“We were elected under the Emma Nwaeze executive which Emeakayi served as a vice chairman before he arrogated to himself the chairmanship of the party.

“Our tenure expires on Ocober 24 this year and we expect the national leadership to set up a caretaker committee before a proper congress could be conducted,” he said.

The group, which accused Emeakayi of anti-party activities by working against the PDP governorship candidate, Mr. Tony Nwoye, in the last governorship election, warned that if he was not stopped in his present court matter aimed at elongating the tenure of the out-going executive, the party would again be compromised in the general elections.
“We are equally calling on the reconciliation committee chairman, Alhaji Amadu Ali, to investigate the matter and invite us to a round table reconciliation,” he said.